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The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Miller Place, New York, United States
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About This Item
London; New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited; The Macmillan Company, 1904. Hardcover, limp leather, gilt-stamped cover & spine. Fair/No Dust Jacket. With 100 illustrations by Linley Sambourne. 330 pages. Illustrated Pocket Classics for the Young. Whole and complete but fragile, needs TLC. Top edge gilt, covers rather worn, leather edges crumbly, cracking/split. Best known for his historical romances, Kingsley was a 19th century English clergyman, novelist, and poet.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monkey House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8379
- Title
- The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Illustrator
- With 100 illustrations by Linley Sambourne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, limp leather, gilt-stamped cover & spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited; The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- London; New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- JJB
Terms of Sale
Monkey House Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Monkey House Books
Biblio member since 2010
Miller Place, New York
About Monkey House Books
Monkey House Books is a mail order, used book dealer located on New York's Long Island. We offer quality used books in a variety of categories at reasonable prices. A home-based business managed by a lifelong bibliophile, Monkey House offers personalized assistance and friendly customer service. For the holidays, or anytime, we provide gift wrapping and recipient shipping upon request. We ship within 24 hours of receiving payment, and packages are wrapped and boxed using recycled/reused materials.
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- New
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...